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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
8
Wanted experienced colored janitor for night work apply 607 Hicks Bidg. Wanted a driver must know the city well and furnish references J Dietrich & Co 1348 8 Laredo.
Help wanted and service notices from a Salvation Army Rescue Home and various employers. Listings include a friend-seeking mission at 3019 River Ave, calls to old phone 2872, and free shelter and employment assistance. Also multiple local job ads for domestic work, cooking, laundry, housekeepers, and general labor across several addresses.
Two large connecting southeast rooms near 783 N Flores and J, very cool and close in with reasonable rent. Also 3 unfurnished rooms with bath, electric light and gas at 119 San Pedro Avenue with private entrance. Barn at 413 E Crockett Street. Two unfurnished connecting rooms with all conveniences, ring old phone 5367.
Multiple listings offer furnished housekeeping rooms with bath gas and electric light running water and modern conveniences at 316 Eb Nueva St 803 628 Ave B 119 San Pedro Ave and 522 Augusta St including sleeping porch options 147 Light and 122 Madison St plus a day position for a middle aged lady at 431 Light
Multiple lost items including a hand towel table cloth, 45 Colt pistol with ivory handle, railroad credential book, red bicycle wheel, a Delaval separator bowl, a small black vest pocket memo book, a white Eskimo poodle named Jerry, and a lady's diamond set watch. Rewards offered for returns to various locations and contact numbers.
Various listings describe neatly furnished, cool rooms for rent in private homes and hotels around Joske's, Alamo Plaza, and central areas. Prices range from $1.50 to $3 per week with options for housekeeping, private baths, and hot and cold water. several places offer summer rates and proximity to the S. P. depot and city amenities.
Multiple rental ads describe five to seven room houses and cottages near Tobin Hill San Pedro Madison Square Park and Lang Park area. Properties include four to six rooms with baths gas electricity and car line access with rents ranging from $8 to $26 a month. Listings cite owners and contact numbers on old and new phones.
Multiple rental ads outline six and five room cottages near the depot and streets such as Denver boulevard Olive Wyoming Olive streets and Diaz with baths electric lights shade and furnished options. Local firms Petty Boudreaux Ed Steves & Sons and A J Greiner advertise contact points and prices from 12 to 36 dollars monthly.
Classified notes advertise cash paid for diamonds old gold and silver foreign or mutilated coins with estimates and a phone number for Alamo Jewelry Co Also offers wanted jobs carpenter to buy a safe household furniture desks and a flat top oak desk and advertises an optical department and fresh fruit peach ice cream from Riegler Ice Cream Co.
A compilation of short notices seeking employment: a surveyor offers competence and asks for work location near 895 Light. a young man seeks bookkeeper, salesman, or office work with references. an experienced male nurse lists contact at 417 and old phone 6510. a married man seeks any clerical work while employed. H. Wood at 416 S Flores lists a position. a colored man seeks a porter job at a wholesale house, 605 Nebraska St.
Multiple listings describe four room cottages and houses for rent near the depot and in Beacon Hill, with prices from $18 to $20 per month. Several offerings request responsible or congenial couples, including modern amenities, proximity to post offices and the I and G N depot, and contact by old phone numbers.
A dense listing of goods and notices includes furnished and unfurnished apartments near St. Anthony hotel, an arc lamp on city lighting, doors, printing services, hay, fresh fruit ice cream, a light spring wagon trade for a bicycle, corn shelling equipment, gas lamps, concrete gravel, soda fountain fixtures, popcorn machine, a bankrupt stock of Charles E. Hummel suits, and various sale items at 417 W. Commerce St. See Bankrupt Banner.
Poultry and pet stock wanted all kinds of live poultry. Wagenfehr Depot phone 151. Registered stock fox terrier puppies for sale $6 and $10. Pets for children at Peacock School.
A flyer lists buy and sell ads for horses mules cows and vehicles including harness and saddles. It promotes best trotter in the state not for use city broke a fine Jersey cow with calf a black mare colt and other livestock at various street addresses.
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